DrawingsFrench18th century

View of Mola di Gaeta

1724

Artists

François Le MoyneArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Black and white chalk on blue antique laid paper, laid down on a decorated mount

Culture

French

Century

18th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

22.4 × 36.5 cm (8 13/16 × 14 3/8 in.)

Provenance

Heinrich Wilhelm Campe, Leipzig (his mark, L.1391, lower left); Colnaghi, London (by 1964); Philip and Frances L. Hofer, Cambridge, bequest; to Harvard Art Museums/ Fogg Museum, Bequest of Frances L. Hofer, inv. no. 1979.74

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